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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1917
Page
7
The Star lists Want Ad rates effective May 1 for classified notices and advertising. Rates include per line prices, multi insertion discounts, and contract options. Open spaces may be used within one year, with legal ads following a separate rate schedule. Main number 600.
A collage of classified items lists rental options near Lake Station and Beattie Averett Interurban lines, including a 4 and 66 per month house with water and half an acre. Apartment rooms, utilities, and nearby transit are advertised. Job listings cover clerical, telegraph, and factory roles, with pay, training, and openings at Western Union, city commissions, and local firms.
A dense OCR of classified notices shows wide ads for baths and massage parlors, fortune tellers, and spiritual readers across many addresses on Pike, Third Avenue, and Fourth Avenue. The items include massage offices, masseurs, magnet treatments, vibrator use, and a spectrum of psychics offering readings and ceremonies at several motels and hotels.
Daily market list from South End shows Mtell 48 for best Jersey butter at 476 lb, pot roast, rolled cate, and various staples. Economy section lists flour, milk, oats, corn meal, cocoa, bacon, veal, and other groceries with prices and weights.
The text reads as a fragmented old time market notice listing various foods and prices. Items include corn flakes, milk, veal cuts, lamb, fresh hens, corned beef, sausages, ham, beef slices, and other groceries. The language is garbled but indicates a daily shop assortment and anticipated cost counts.
A garbled list shows various grocery items with prices and quantities including pure cane sugar, soda crackers, ingercnaps, oyster crackers, prepared pancakes flour, fruit, rubber goods, cauliflower, Ever green corn, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, Carnation milk, yellow corn meal, rolled oats, and a 100 unit unspecified total.
A fragment lists various meat and dairy products with weights and prices. Items include steak, lamb, veal roast, shoulder lamb, butter, peanut butter, margarine, coffee, ground chocolate, Carnation milk, and assorted staples.
Local routes trainers depart Colman Dock at the foot of Marion Street in Seattle. Beattie remains as Geattie arrives to take charge of duties and oversee operations.
United States troops begin extended training in France as new specialists join. Americans finish a French period with Pollus and start British style instruction in trench mortaring bayoneting and machine gunning. A separate school for officers and non coms opens to intensify instruction.
A new shipyard twice the size of the Newport News plant will arise on a 2,700 acre tract at Suisun. The venture is led by R. N. Burgess of San Francisco and has $3,000,000 in bonds approved by the state corporation commissioner. Half of the funds will be used to purchase the site from the Crocker estate with the rest for construction.
The steamer Governor will omit Vancouver calls and the steamer Coons once Loongmoon has been chartered to handle Vancouver freight. The Dora Bulldog of the North will depart to replace Santa Ana on Seward to Kuskokwim service. In Tacoma shipyard talks, workers await the Seattle owners and union conference results in Washington DC.
Movements show Admiral Dewey arriving from Tacoma and several ships sailing from Shattle including Admiral Evans to Anchorage via Western and Southern routes, along with Port details for Bonator, Queen, Panama Maru, Junene, Oleum, and Noogevelt. Alaska reports Sailed: Crook for Seattle and Northwestern southbound. Jun 7 Jun ea.
Sixty tire salesmen attended a banquet and meeting at the New Washington hotel Friday night. H. S. Quine publicity director and secretary to President Siberling spoke to introduce Goodyear products to the Seattle tire trade as part of a coastwide series.
Frank B. Cooper reports an enrollment rise of 1312 students from last year. The United Artisans will meet Monday at Fraternal hall Fourth and Pike. Lt G M Shaw of the imperial flying corps is due September 12 in Seattle to recruit for the British aviation corps. The Geattie Chamber and Commercial Club plan a strong delegation to the United States Chamber of Commerce convention in Atlantic City September 19 to 21. Louie Wan, a Chinese man, was released on 600 bond after a preliminary hearing for opium possession. Minnie Frazier drops two postal certificates at the post office. A M Thompson lost control of his roadster Friday and hit a vendor's stand. Lacie D Deseo. A county claim for 9603.25 for timber loss from a forest fire on Nic Hell's farm is unlikely to be granted.
The district board granted additional exemption claims including Arent Grentea in Division 1 and several others across divisions 1 through 12. The notice also lists men in Division 3 and Division 6 who were called for exam at the rear of the police station at N 45th and Dememere, with many names named as to appearance or desertion.
Former Senator T. C. Power told Seattle Chamber of Commerce members at Friday's noon luncheon that Seattle offers 40 percent cheaper living than Montana. He cited mild winters public markets and home gardens as the reasons.
Washington will be the first state to deliver the entire first quota totaling 2367 men at Camp Lewis as contingents arrive Saturday. Early arrivals include 10 from Tacoma with one Chinese and three from Pierce county, plus seven from Pierce county on Friday. Additional detachments from Spokane Lincoln county Yakima and Ellensburg follow, assigned to the 261st infantry under Lieut. Col. Lucius C. Bennett Maj. John J. Mudgett and Maj. Oscar Miller, with California’s first quota arriving today.
President Wilson will accept the resignation of Dudley Field Malone New York port collector who left office after disagreeing with the president's suffrage stance Malone argued during a West campaign that he would vigorously support suffrage and criticized the Democratic program of letting states decide.
United Press dispatch from Minneapolis notes American labor delegates to the Alliance of Labor and Democracy pledge to back the war effort against autocracy. Gompers sends a message to President Wilson assuring labor will aid the government fully.
A plan to lease the old Seattle Athletic Club rooms as a headquarters for select service men when in Seattle is being considered by a committee of the Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club. The proposal would provide special quarters for Seattle hon or men at American Lake and in the city.
Amsterdam September 8 United Press Leased Wire reports an important Berlin source quoted by the Pelttken Berlin correspondent that the Germans are unlikely to continue their offensive toward Petrograd this year.
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